Mellon Fellow Kirksey Publishes Book on West Papua

Eben Kirksey, a Mellon Fellow with the Committee for Interdisciplinary Science Studies and visiting assistant professor at the GC, has published Freedom in Entangled Worlds: West Papua and the Architecture of Global Power (Duke University Press, 2012). Kirksey blends ethnographic research with indigenous parables, historical accounts, and narratives of his own experiences in West Papua as an exchange student and a researcher to tell this story of the Indonesian province’s pragmatic approach to its movement for freedom.